Quercus corrugata
{{Short description|Species of oak tree}}
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| image = The Central American species of Quercus (1942) (20561880626).jpg
| image_caption = Herbarium specimen of Quercus corrugata
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = Jerome, D. 2018. [https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/89963078/89963082 Quercus corrugata]. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T89963078A89963082. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T89963078A89963082.en. Accessed 27 February 2023.
| genus = Quercus
| display_parents = 2
| parent = Quercus sect. Quercus
| species = corrugata
| authority = Hook.
| synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295992-1 Quercus corrugata Hook.] Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 26 February 2023.
|synonyms=
- Quercus aaata C.H.Mull.
- Quercus boqueronae Trel.
- Quercus corrugata var. granulifera Trel.
- Quercus corrugata var. ipalensis Trel.
- Quercus corrugata var. microcarpa Wenz.
- Quercus cyclobalanoides Trel.
- Quercus excelsa Liebm.
- Quercus insignis subsp. pilarius (Trel.) A.E.Murray
- Quercus insignis var. pilarius (Trel.) A.E.Murray
- Quercus molinae C.H.Mull.
- Quercus ovandensis Matuda
- Quercus pilarius Trel.
- Quercus pilgeriana Seemen
- Quercus reevesii Trel.
- Quercus yousei Trel.
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Quercus corrugata is a species of oak found in Central America and Mexico.
Description
Quercus corrugata is a large deciduous tree, growing up to 60 meters tall. It has long straight trunk which can reach 2.5 meters in diameter.[http://oaks.of.the.world.free.fr/quercus_corrugata.htm Quercus corrugata]. Oaks of the World. Accessed 1 March 2023. It has very large acorns, which are produced in large quantities during episodic mast-seeding events.
Range and habitat
Quercus corrugata ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to western Panama.
In Mexico it is found in the southern Sierra Madre Oriental of Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Puebla states through the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Chiapas Highlands, and Sierra Madre de Chiapas. In Central America it is found in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas of Guatemala and El Salvador, the Guatemalan Highlands, the Maya Mountains of Belize, the Chortis Highlands of Honduras and Nicaragua, and the Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica and western Panama.
It inhabits humid montane cloud forests between 700 and 2,200 meters elevation.
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Category:Trees of Central America
Category:Cloud forest flora of Mexico
Category:Flora of the Central American pine–oak forests
Category:Flora of the Central American montane forests
Category:Flora of the Chiapas Highlands
Category:Flora of the Sierra Madre Oriental
Category:Flora of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca
Category:Sierra Madre de Chiapas